Flora by DK

Flora by DK

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Flora by DK Kew, the Royal Botanic Gardens also contributed to Flora. This book was published in 2018, and the subtitle is Inside the Secret World of Plants.  Well, let me tell you that when I got my copy of this book, I was so pleasantly surprised. This…

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April 27, 2021 Groundcover Options, Thomas Church, Tulip Clusiana, The First Fine Spring Days, Lawn Gone! by Pam Penick, and Flora the Goddess of Spring

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Today we celebrate a 20th-Century Landscape Architect who focused on his client’s desires and needs. This effort to personalize his work made him incredibly successful. We’ll also learn about a species Tulip praised for its hardiness and peppermint candy appearance. We’ll hear some thoughts about the first fine spring days. We Grow That Garden Library™…

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February 25, 2021 This Year’s Garden Trends, Katherine Sophia Kane, Josif Pančić, The February Birds at Jean Hersey’s Feeder, Everlastings by Bex Partridge, and an Edna Walling Theater Production

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Today we celebrate a young botanist that wrote the first flora of Ireland at the age of 22. We’ll also learn about the Father of Serbian botany. We hear words about the birds of winter – creatures that entertain us at our bird feeders and fly freely over our winter gardens. We Grow That Garden…

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Celebrating J. R. R. Tolkien and The Flora of Middle Earth

J. R. R. Tolkien with his pipe

“The father-and-son author team of Walter Judd and Graham Judd point out that when Tolkien created Middle-Earth, he was incredibly detailed about plant life…” January 3, 1892 On this day, the English writer and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien was born.   Gardeners will enjoy a book by Walter S. Judd and Graham A. Judd,…

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